"defy" nach Englisch mit Beispielen - Kollokationen-Wörterbuch Englisch

defy Verb

defy + Substantiv
Kolokacji: 61
defy orders • defy gravity • defy death • defy logic • defy expectations • defy the laws • defy description • defy authority • ...
(1) order, law, ban, precedent
Kolokacji: 4
(3) logic, sense
Kolokacji: 2
(10) odds, wish
Kolokacji: 2
1. defy the odds = pokonać przeciwności losu, odnieść sukces pomimo przeciwności defy the odds
2. defy one's wishes = przeciwstawiać się czyjś pragnienia defy one's wishes
  • He had lost no time in ridding himself of a wife who had defied his wishes.
  • And I won't have a wife who stands there and defies my wishes!
  • They only saw us as spoiled children defying their wishes.
  • So it may be, and so they defy my wishes!
  • Because of the union's wealth and influence, chancellors rarely defy its wishes.
  • She could not defy her mother's wishes, so she put on the ring and fell to the floor.
  • The only way he could attain the status required to defy his father's wishes, he told me, was to become a father himself.
  • As a young man he defied his father's wishes to become an engineer and became a choreographer instead.
  • He was powerful enough to wreck any paper which defied his wishes.
  • It is therefore extremely difficult for incumbents, mainly Democrats, to defy its wishes on the budget.
(11) attempt, effort, pressure
Kolokacji: 3
(12) threat, warning
Kolokacji: 2
(13) father, fate, skeptic
Kolokacji: 3
(14) demand, call, identification
Kolokacji: 3
(15) time, history, age
Kolokacji: 3
Verb + defy
Kolokacji: 6
seem to defy • continue to defy • dare defy • continue defying • mean defying • ...
defy + Präposition
Kolokacji: 8
defy in • defy on • defy with • defy by • defy from • ...
defy + Adjektiv/Adverb
Kolokacji: 9
openly defy • repeatedly defied • successfully defy • simply defy • consistently defied • ...

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